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Poem by Ellis Parker Butler


Golden Silence


I told her I loved her and begged but a word,
One dear little word, that would be
For me by all odds the most sweet ever heard,
But never a word said she!

I raged at her then, and I said she was cold;
I swore she was nothing to me;
I prayed her the cause of her silence unfold,
But never a word said she!

I covered with kisses her delicate hand,
But she only glanced down where the sea
Low murmured in ripples of love on the sand,
And never a word said she!

I cast her hand from me with rage unsuppressed,
And she turned her blue eyes up to me
And smiled as she laid her fair head on my breast;
“What need of a word?” asked she.



Ellis Parker Butler


Ellis Parker Butler's other poems:
  1. The Rich Boy’s Christmas
  2. New England Magazine
  3. The Final Tax
  4. Jabed Meeker, Humorist
  5. A Study in Feeling


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